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Large language models excel at generating fluent text but frequently struggle with structured reasoning involving temporal constraints, causal relationships, and probabilistic reasoning. To address these limitations, we propose Temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hong Qing Yu

Question answering over knowledge graphs (KG-QA) is a vital topic in IR. Questions with temporal intent are a special class of practical importance, but have not received much attention in research. This work presents EXAQT, the first…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhen Jia , Soumajit Pramanik , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

In this paper we study a property of time-dependent graphs, dubbed path ranking invariance. Broadly speaking, a time-dependent graph is path ranking invariant if the ordering of its paths (w.r.t. travel time) is independent of the start…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Tommaso Adamo , Gianpaolo Ghiani , Emanuela Guerriero

Temporal knowledge graph reasoning (TKGR) aims to predict future events by inferring missing entities with dynamic knowledge structures. Existing LLM-based reasoning methods prioritize contextual over structural relations, struggling to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shiqi Fan , Quanming Yao , Hongyi Nie , Wentao Ma , Zhen Wang , Wen Hua

Recommender systems, crucial for user engagement on platforms like e-commerce and streaming services, often lag behind users' evolving preferences due to static data reliance. After Temporal Graph Networks (TGNs) were proposed, various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yejin Kim , Youngbin Lee , Vincent Yuan , Annika Lee , Yongjae Lee

In recent years, the expressive power of various neural architectures -- including graph neural networks (GNNs), transformers, and recurrent neural networks -- has been characterised using tools from logic and formal language theory. As the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Marco Sälzer , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga , Martin Lange

The times of temporal-network events and their correlations contain information on the function of the network and they influence dynamical processes taking place on it. To extract information out of correlated event times, techniques such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-10 Jari Saramäki , Mikko Kivelä , Márton Karsai

Temporal point processes (TPP) are probabilistic generative models for continuous-time event sequences. Neural TPPs combine the fundamental ideas from point process literature with deep learning approaches, thus enabling construction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Oleksandr Shchur , Ali Caner Türkmen , Tim Januschowski , Stephan Günnemann

Real-time analysis of graphs containing temporal information, such as social media streams, Q&A networks, and cyber data sources, plays an important role in various applications. Among them, detecting patterns is one of the fundamental…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Seunghwan Min , Jihoon Jang , Kunsoo Park , Dora Giammarresi , Giuseppe F. Italiano , Wook-Shin Han

Temporal Knowledge Graph Completion (TKGC) is a complex task involving the prediction of missing event links at future timestamps by leveraging established temporal structural knowledge. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Ruilin Luo , Tianle Gu , Haoling Li , Junzhe Li , Zicheng Lin , Jiayi Li , Yujiu Yang

Time plays a critical role in how information is generated, retrieved, and interpreted. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive overview of Temporal Question Answering (TQA), a research area that focuses on answering questions involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Bhawna Piryani , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Jamshid Mozafari , Avishek Anand , Adam Jatowt

Temporal graph learning has applications in recommendation systems, traffic forecasting, and social network analysis. Although multiple architectures have been introduced, progress in positional encoding for temporal graphs remains limited.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yaniv Galron , Fabrizio Frasca , Haggai Maron , Eran Treister , Moshe Eliasof

Conventional embedding-based models approach event time prediction in temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) as a ranking problem. However, they often fall short in capturing essential temporal relationships such as order and distance. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Siheng Xiong , Yuan Yang , Ali Payani , James C Kerce , Faramarz Fekri

Inductive logic reasoning is a fundamental task in graph analysis, which aims to generalize patterns from data. This task has been extensively studied for traditional graph representations, such as knowledge graphs (KGs), using techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuan Yang , Siheng Xiong , Ali Payani , James C Kerce , Faramarz Fekri

Subject to the huge semantic gap between natural and formal languages, neural semantic parsing is typically bottlenecked by its complexity of dealing with both input semantics and output syntax. Recent works have proposed several forms of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Lunyiu Nie , Shulin Cao , Jiaxin Shi , Jiuding Sun , Qi Tian , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Jidong Zhai

We study the complexity of the directed periodic temporal graph realization problem. This work is motivated by the design of periodic schedules in public transport with constraints on the quality of service. Namely, we require that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Julia Meusel , Matthias Müller-Hannemann , Klaus Reinhardt

In this work, we introduce a filtration on temporal graphs based on $\delta$-temporal motifs (recurrent subgraphs), yielding a multi-scale representation of temporal structure. Our temporal filtration allows tools developed for filtered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Samrik Chowdhury , Siddharth Pritam , Rohit Roy , Madhav Cherupilil Sajeev

Accurate traffic flow forecasting is a crucial research topic in transportation management. However, it is a challenging problem due to rapidly changing traffic conditions, high nonlinearity of traffic flow, and complex spatial and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Sanghyun Lee , Chanyoung Park

This paper introduces time window temporal logic (TWTL), a rich expressivity language for describing various time bounded specifications. In particular, the syntax and semantics of TWTL enable the compact representation of serial tasks,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Cristian-Ioan Vasile , Derya Aksaray , Calin Belta

Metric temporal logic (MTL) and timed propositional temporal logic (TPTL) are quantitative extensions of linear temporal logic, which are prominent and widely used in the verification of real-timed systems. It was recently shown that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Shiguang Feng , Markus Lohrey , Karin Quaas